These guides take the user through the tasks required of providing additional Linux security to NMIS9 and it's modules.

Linux Hardening Guide - VM distribution

Linux Hardening Guide - Ubuntu/RHEL

This guide will go over a few settings that will help to make your Linux environment with NMIS9 more secure and stable.

Set the OMK NMIS9 VM to run services & scripts as user with omkadmin being the owner:group of /usr/local/omk

These steps will allow omkadmin as a user and as a group able to execute OMK scripts. To do this, we will follow the steps below:

To begin, we will find files and directories in /data/omk with setUID bit set

sudo find /data/omk -perm/+4000

Set Cronjobs

We will be sure to set all OMK cronjobs to run as the user omkadmin and not as the root user.

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